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Friday, July 8th, 2011

The Flower Girl Dress

So I started sewing this baby up.  It looks more dress-like than nightie-like although, truly, what’s the difference?  It might have to do with all the gathers.  Next time I’m going to try copying the one I made for Chase.  It was simpler in some ways. Read the rest of this entry »

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Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Doll 2

I worked on stuff over the weekend.  I took the sad bits of cloth that were lying around waiting to be Avery’s counterpart to Chase’s silver Rapunzel and finally finished it.  I like this one.  She’s soft and cuddly she is.  And I gave her brown hair.  Brown and kind of greenish but she’s not that picky… yet.  I drew the face on this time but it looks about as good as the 4-year old created version.  Oh, and I used a Sharpie.  A while back I participated in a craft stash swap and Mindy sent me a pack of fabric pens.  Brilliant!  I love them already!  Thanks to Kim for organizing that, totally fun.   Read the rest of this entry »

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Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

My Budding Ornithologist

We bird watch fairly regularly in our back yard because if you watch hard enough and often enough every now and then you’ll see a goldfinch or a woodpecker.  It’s tricky, you see, because we don’t actually have any trees or anything and our yard is teeny tiny but it can be done.  So a few months ago when I heard about this urban birds study I signed up for it.  It took forever but our packet finally came and it’s pretty awesome! Read the rest of this entry »

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